Compare And Contrast Essay On Harriet Tubman

This essay is to compare and contrast to passages about Harriet Tubman. Harriet was girl who lived in Maryland as a slave, she did not like this at all. So one night as she was watching her masters celebrate about the cotton, she swore to escape someday, she was fifteen then. She later on did escape slavery but when she got to the free land she did not feel home without her parents and friends. So she went back to Maryland to get her parents, after that she kept on making many other trips to the south to free other slaves. She also was a spy in the civil war and was a reason why the Union won the war.

There are to passages about Harriet, one is called “ A Woman called Moses” it talks about when Harriet was a child and when she swore that she was going to escape. It says that she escaped and came back for more slaves to free and she never lost a passenger, she used harsh ways but it was only to keep everyone safe. The second Passage is called “ Leaders of the Civil War Harriet Tubman”, it talks more about when Harriet was in the war and what she did. For instance when she led an ambush past enemy lines which was very successful. She was a spy and also a conductor in the war as well.

In the passage ‘’A woman Called Moses’’ it does not talk about her being in the war, it just talks about how she led slaves to freedom. The time period is also different and Harriet Tubman has now joined a group that is helping the union to win the war, also she is a spy and gets important info for the union. Harriet does not seem to be freeing slaves in leaders of the civil war so that is another difference and also the setting is now more in the north which is different from the other passage. Civil war leaders also shows the Civil War to be more of an action movie to me because of the way it is